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Demanding verdict reversal, convicted sex cult leaders say feds violated First Amendment

Published July 10, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged appeal, criminal convictions, cult, cult leaders, New York, Nicole Daedone, One Taste, OneTaste, Rachel Cherwitz

BROOKLYN (CN) — Two leaders of a Bay Area company that sold ritualized sex acts as a form of meditation say their forced labor conspiracy conviction was based on an unconstitutional prosecution, accusing the government of attacking their belief system…[Continue Reading...]

How a rising YouTube skater became SF’s most powerful Scientologist

Published July 9, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Aaron Kyro, San Ferancisco, Scientologists, Scientology

“This is either going to be the best decision of my life or the worst decision of my life,” Ricky Glaser recalled his boss, Aaron Kyro, telling him. It was early 2021, and Kyro, the content creator behind YouTube’s most…[Continue Reading...]

Edo: Five feared dead in renewed cult clashes across Benin City

Published July 9, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cults, deaths, gangs, Nigeria, violence

At least five people were reportedly killed between Monday and Tuesday in the Benin metropolis of Edo State, following a resurgence of violence linked to a rivalry between suspected members of the Maphite and Black Axe cult groups. Sources confirmed…[Continue Reading...]

Victorian cult inquiry

Published July 9, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Canada, cult awareness, cult education, cults

The Victorian government has invited citizens to participate in an inquiry into “Understanding the impacts of cults/'organised fringe groups.” Moira Deeming MP is urging people to make submissions about the cult of gender ideology and has shared a helpful document…[Continue Reading...]

Cult survivor: I was lured in at the shops

Published July 9, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized

Here, Liz Cameron shares her story in her own words Walking through the local shopping centre in Canberra where I lived, I was approached by a woman. ‘Could you fill out a survey about Australian culture?’ she asked innocently. The…[Continue Reading...]

Three years after Abe’s shooting, where do things stand?

Published July 8, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, tax-excempt status, Unification Church

It’s been three years since the shocking assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — and yet, the trial of the 44-year-old man accused of the crime still hasn’t begun. Tetsuya Yamagami is charged with fatally shooting Abe in broad…[Continue Reading...]

Ministry proposes tightened regulations on multi-level marketing operations

Published July 8, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged MLM, mullti level marketing, Vietnam

HÀ NỘI — The Ministry of Industry and Trade has proposed a mandatory deposit for multi-level marketing (MLM) companies from VNĐ10 billion (US$393,000) to VNĐ20 billion or VNĐ50 billion as part of a draft decree aimed at tightening management of…[Continue Reading...]

Watch – In the name of God? The secretive Christian sect under FBI investigation

Published July 8, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes, Cult TV Tagged child abuse, cults, no name church, sect, sexual abuse, two by twos

A shadowy Christian sect known as the Two by Twos (2x2s) — also called The Truth, The Way, or the No-Name Church — is at the center of a shocking global child sexual abuse scandal. A Daily Maverick investigation reveals…[Continue Reading...]

Israel bans anti-Zionist rabbi after he meets with Iran’s FM Araghchi in Brazil

Published July 7, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged barred, Israael, Neturei Karta, Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss

Interior Minister Moshe Arbel has permanently barred Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, a leader of the fringe anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox sect Neturei Karta, after Weiss met with Iran’s foreign minister in Brazil yesterday. “I will not allow someone who acts against the…[Continue Reading...]

The Sith of Silicon Valley: Ziz LaSota’s AI cult left six dead – who is she?

Published July 7, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged criminal charges, cult, cult leader, Jack "Ziz" LaSota, murders, Zizians

Ziz LaSota’s early life was unremarkable: eldest of three, father a university instructor, homeschooled through lonely Alaskan winters. But teenage depression twisted her mind inward. Puberty felt like death. She wrote that she was “horrified at being overwritten by a…[Continue Reading...]